Does anyone have any experience with both of these products, or one of them? We’re doing the tile surround in a tub/ shower and we’d like to use one of these products for waterproofing. We’d also like to use it on the floor in front of the tub, but we’re using an electric floor warmer as well. Are these liquid membranes OK to use in close proximity to a floor warmer. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.
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If that Laticrete grout is what I think it is it has a latex bonding agent in it. After you let the grout set you will have to put a sealer over it. And this will have to be done ever couple of years or so. The other brand I am not familiar with.
I see that you are a new poster. So I bid you welcome to Break Time (BT). It is preferred that you fill out your profile so that if you ask a question in the future the folks here at BT will be able to answer it better. Some things are done differently in different parts of the world. Also some terminology is different for the same thing.
You never know who in here could be your neighbor and become a life long friend.
I hope that you learn and laugh just as all of the rest of us have and do.
Let us know what you decided and post a couple of pictures of the final product of your labors.
Dane
I will always be a beginner as I am always learning.
Try asking your question here as well...a great site for tile and stone questions.
http://www.johnbridge.com/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?forumid=1
Are you talking about using 9235 as waterproofing instead of using a membrane under the mortar? Michael Byrne's book talks about something like that, but I'm not sure I would do it. If you are talking about keeping most of the moisture out of your mortar bed, it should do that fine.
The question about heat... I would call the Laticrete tech support line about that. I don't think it would be a problem, since heated floors are not really all that hot, and a section of dark-colored tile exposed to direct sunlight thru a window would probably get much hotter. But call them anyway.
The tile forum at JLC Online is good also.
Edited 4/14/2005 3:07 pm ET by davidmeiland